Downing a late night-early morning bourbon or two with a couple of barroom cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrissey brothers who run the joint are strangely submissive during the raid, but eager to see Scudder track down the thieves without involving the regular forces of law and order. At the same time a robbery with murder is taking place out in the suburbs and one of Matt's drinking pals is going to be desperate for an unbreakable alibi.